net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, October 30, 2020
Leiden University Center for Continental Philosophy (LCCP) and the Institute for Science in Society of the Radboud University of Nijmegen welcome all interested persons to a symposium on Bernard Stiegler’s work on 3-4 December 2020. Bernard Stiegler’s unexpected passing away in August 2020 left many things unfinished. His philosophical work, that had started by a [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, October 30, 2020
On the 9th of November, our friends from the Centre for Digital Inquiry, Warwick’s hub for critical digital research, organize a public talk about their ‘COVID-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies’ project. Apps have emerged as a key part of the response to COVID-19 around the world. Initial research and critical assessments of COVID-19 [...]
By Marijn Bril, October 27, 2020
What does it mean to infiltrate the other side of the argument? The Fetish for the Image and the Digital Ethnographer Coming from the field of design, my online feeds and timelines are flooded in aesthetics. Even after carefully picking accounts to follow and pages to like, the aestheticized image keeps on slipping [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 23, 2020
Hello world! My name is Karina Zavidova, I am a designer, an independent researcher and a migrant in the Netherlands. I am currently conducting a survey on the working conditions of non-EU citizens in the Dutch arts & culture sector. My definition of ‘cultural work’ in this survey is intentionally broad. I have been researching [...]
By Eleni Maragkou, October 22, 2020
“Baker’s first extensive translation to English provides us with a much-needed intervention for re-imagining social thought and visual media, at a time when sociology tends to be reduced to an analysis of ‘big data’, and the pedagogical powers of the image are reduced to data visualization and infographics.” From the book’s back cover. Ulus Baker [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, October 8, 2020
Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts students have not only occupied their university, they have now redesigned the university completely and started new ways of teaching with their ‘experimental teaching republic’. Earlier this October, nearly 100 students occupied their university after the right-wing national government of prime minister Viktor Orband transferred ownership of the [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 8, 2020
Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data International Symposium 22 October – 12 November, 2020 Hosted by Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/contagion_design Organizers: Gay Hawkins and Ned Rossiter How is contagion designed? How do labour, migration, habits and data configure contagion? Across a program of four weeks of discussion and debate, this [...]
By Inte Gloerich, October 1, 2020
Our friends over at the Berliner Gazette are organizing a series of events called SILENT WORKS about hidden labor in AI-capitalism. In the lead up to the central conference and exhibition, they share the following update: Big tech is using the Covid-19 pandemic to take over Berlin. Amazon, for instance, one of the biggest profiteers [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, October 1, 2020
The mandate of exclusive pay-wall access for scientific articles is nothing new inside research routines and academic cycles. This began after the influx of virtual repositories in the 90’s information-rerun era [1]. However, the debates on whether or not these contents should become part of the public domain in contemporary network societies, have arrived (alongside [...]
By Jess Henderson, September 28, 2020
When did creative work become so boring? How did ‘digital-first’ come to dominate everything? …and why is nobody talking about it? Offline Matters is a handbook for anybody experiencing digital overload in their lives and creative work. Part insider exposé, part worker-manual, this book is for any creative seeking help on: Navigating the possibility of [...]
